Year by Year Polls: 1953 (Closed)

gromit82 · #1

Welcome to the Year by Year Poll!

This poll is for the year 1953.

These polls are fairly simple. We work our way through film history selecting a different year each time, and you list your top films from the given year. Depending on the number of voters, the poll usually produces a list of around 50-90 films and is a great way of finding recommendations. You can also list other films outside your top 20 as honorable mentions or runners-up.

The Rules

- You can vote for a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 films.

- Feature films, documentaries, short films, TV movies, and TV mini-series are all eligible, but not continuing TV series or individual TV episodes.

- We use IMDb dates for consistency, so a title should be listed on IMDb as 1953 (unless a specific film has been otherwise declared eligible).

- Your ballot can be either ranked or unranked, but for ranked ballots, your list must be numbered. Partially ranked lists (where a certain number at the top are ranked, and the rest are unranked) are allowed. Please make sure that what you mean to do with your list is clear.

- IMPORTANT: Along with a list of the titles from 1953, please include the corresponding list of bare IMDb urls for the same films. Your ballot cannot be counted if the IMDb urls are not included. (And if you list only the URLs but not the films' titles, you'll significantly reduce your fellow voters' enjoyment of this poll, so please make sure to include both titles and URLs.)

- Please note, you must post your URL list yourself rather than having someone else do that for you.

The Scoring

For ranked ballots, the top-ranked title will receive a number of points equal to the number of titles on the ballot, with each succeeding title receiving one fewer point. So the top title on a list of 20 films will receive 20 points, the next 19 points, and so on. If the list has only 10 films, the top title will receive 10 points, the next one 9, and so on. If there are 5 films on the list, the top film will receive 5 points, the next one 4, etc. You get the idea.

For unranked ballots, each title will receive an equal share of the total points that would have been allotted to the ballot if it had been ranked. If there are 20 films on the ballot, this means each one would receive 10.5 points.

Some resources

1953 films sorted by most votes on IMDb

1953 films you've rated on IMDb

Wikipedia's 1953 in film article

1953 films you've checked on ICM

1953 films you *haven't* checked on ICM

Previous poll results as ICM lists

2017: 1940 results, 1981 results, 2005 results, 1927 results, 1968 results, 1939 results, 1976 results, 1997 results
2018: 1958 results, 2017 results, 1948 results, 1983 results, 1969 results, 1925 results, 1991 results, 1957 results, 2006 results
2019: 2018 results, 1932 results, 1972 results, 1942 results, 1987 results, 1964 results, 1994 results, 2007 results, 1955 results
2020: 2019 results, 1945 results, 1935 results, 1974 results, 1960 results, 1951 results, 2008 results, 1966 results, 1944 results
2021: 1980 results, 1929 results, 1998 results, 1933 results, 1950 results, 1978 results, 2020 results, 1967 results, 2009 results, 1946 results, 1985 results
2022: 1920 results, 1993 results, 1937 results, 2002 results

The Deadline

This poll is currently scheduled to close on Friday, May 27, at 10 PM US Pacific time. You may revise or add a ballot anytime until the poll is indicated closed in the subject header.

The next poll will be the year in review for 2021, followed by 1962 and 1971.

gromit82 · #2

This post is reserved for eligibility rulings, if any are needed.

TraverseTown · #3

1. Tokyo Story
2. All I Desire
3. Jeopardy
4. The Mesa of Lost Women
5. Marty
6. Roman Holiday
7. Ugetsu
8. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
9. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
10. Duck Amuck
11.  Summer with Monika 

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045492/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045932/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046066/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245266/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046250/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045546/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045708/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/

gunnar · #4

1. Roman Holiday
2. Tokyo Story
3. Pickup on South Street
4. Shane
5. The Wages of Fear
6. Stalag 17
7. Ugetsu
8. I Confess
9. The Big Heat
10. Hondo
11. The Cruel Sea
12. From Here to Eternity
13. The Proud and the Beautiful
14. Call Me Madam
15. Genevieve
16. Lili
17. Titanic
18. I Vitelloni
19. The Earrings of Madame De…
20. Gate of Hell

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Teproc · #5

1. Le salaire de la peur
2. Tôkyô monogatari
3. Ugetsu monogatari
4. Stalag 17
5. Jigokumon
6. Thérèse Raquin
7. Roman Holiday
8. The Bigamist
9. Bienvenido Mister Marshall

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045935/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046429/reference/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046250/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045557/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045554/?ref_=adv_li_tt

beavis · #6

1 . The End - 9
2 . Tôkyô monogatari - 8,5
3 . Gycklarnas afton - 8,5
4 . Ani imôto - 8,5
5 . I vitelloni - 8,5
6 . Les orgueilleux - 8
7 . The Big Heat - 8
8 . Madame de... - 8
9 . Sadko - 8
10 . La signora senza camelie - 8
11 . The Band Wagon - 8
12 . Sommaren med Monika - 8
13 . Le salaire de la peur - 7,5
14 . Ugetsu monogatari - 7,5
15 . I vinti - 7,5
16 . All I Desire - 7,5
17 . Pickup on South Street - 7,5
18 . Gan - 7,5
19 . Stalag 17 - 7,5
20 . Little Fugitive - 7,5

Spoiler

- For the first time (I think) I am compelled to include a short, because it is my number one choice for the year.
- I Vitelloni might actually be my number two choice, but I already bumped its rating up from an 8 to an 8.5 when compiling this list, so it feels unfair, but in my mind that movie has really grown to be an important movie since I've seen it, because I became aware of its huge influence on subsequent films and filmmakers in the meantime (and it's a beautiful film too, the first great personal masterpiece in Fellinis' impressive ouvre).

twodeadmagpies · #7

unranked

gelosia - pietro germi
baaz - guru dutt
the ship of damned women - raffaello matarazzo
sea devils - raoul walsh
traviata '53 - vittorio cottfavi
esa pareja feliz - luis garcía berlanga, juan antonio bardem
rue de l'estrapade - jacques becker
appointment in honduras - jacques tourneur
where chimneys are seen - heinosuke gosho
the moon is blue - otto preminger
el bruto - luis buñuel
the sun shines bright - john ford
a geisha - kenji mizoguchi
statues also die - ghislain cloquet, chris marker, alain resnais
mogambo - john ford
welcome mr marshall! - luis garcía berlanga
gentlemen prefer blondes - howard hawks

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murnaunosferatu · #8

1. Tokyo Story
2. Ugetsu
3. Duck Amuck
4. Madame de…
5. The Sun Shines Bright
6. The Band Wagon
7. The Wages of Fear
8. El
9. The Big Heat
10. Bienvenido Mister Marshall
11. I Vitelloni
12. Shane
13. Sawdust and Tinsel
14. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

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RolandKirkSunglasses · #9

1. Madame de...
2. Ugetsu Monogatari
3. Tokyo Story
4. Bienvenido Mister Marshall
5. Mr. Hulot's Holiday
6. Gion Bayashi
7. Where Chimneys are Seen
8. Old Czech Legends
9. Himeyuri no to
10. Gate of Hell
11. The Lady Without Camelias
12. I Vitelloni
13. The Wages of Fear
14. The Big Heat
15. Pickup on South Street
16. Statues Also Die

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Mysterious Dude · #10

filmbantha · #11

1. The Wages of Fear
2. Therese Raquin
3. Stalag 17
4. Roman Holiday
5. Crime Wave
6. I Vitelloni
7. Pickup On South Street
8. Shane
9. Summer With Monika
10. War Of The Worlds

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046429/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046250/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046878/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046521/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/

klaus78 · #12

1. Tôkyô monogatari
2. Little Fugitive
3. Ugetsu monogatari
4. Le salaire de la peur
5. Roman Holiday
6. Sommaren med Monika
7. The Naked Spur
8. City That Never Sleeps
9. Madame de...
10. I vitelloni
11. Entotsu no mieru basho
12. Les statues meurent aussi
13. Gycklarnas afton
14. La signora senza camelie
15. The Big Heat
16. Crime Wave
17. 99 River Street
18. The Hitch-Hiker
19. Niagara
20. Man in the Dark

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iCheckMovies · #13

While I have not seen the majority of these films in a long time it looks like 1953 was one hell of a year, especially for Japanese cinema, with 7 entries in my top 20:

1. I vitelloni (1953, Federico Fellini)
2. Gycklarnas afton / Sawdust and Tinsel (1953, Ingmar Bergman)
3. Le Salaire de la peur / The Wages of Fear (1953)
4. Gion bayashi / A Geisha (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Madame de... (1953, Max Ophüls)
6. Tôkyô monogatari / Tokyo Story (1953)
7. Gan / Wild Geese / The Mistress (1953, Shirô Toyoda)
8. The Naked Spur (1953, Anthony Mann)
9. Les orgueilleux / The Proud and the Beautiful (1953, Yves Allégret)
10. Stalag 17 (1953, Billy Wilder)

11. Koibumi / Love Letter (1953, Kinuyo Tanaka)
12. The Man Between (1953, Carol Reed)
13. Ugetsu monogatari (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
14. Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck / The Story of Little Mook (1953, Wolfgang Staudte)
15. El (1953, Luis Bunuel)
16. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
17. Tokai no yokogao / Tokyo Profile (1953, Hiroshi Shimizu)
18. Pickup on South Street (1953, Samuel Fuller)
19. Sommaren med Monika (1953, Ingmar Bergman)
20. Shukuzu / Epitome / Miniature (1953, Kaneto Shindô)

Runner ups:

La provinciale / The Wayward Wife (1953, Mario Soldati)
Nihon no higeki / A Japanese Tragedy (1953, Keisuke Kinoshita)
From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinneman)
Man on a Tightrope (1953, Elia Kazan)
Le rideau cramoisi / The Crimson Curtain (1953, Alexandre Astruc)
El Bruto / The Brute (1953, Luis Bunuel)
Staré povesti ceské / Old Czech Legends (1953, Jirí Trnka)

URLs:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046521/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045848/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045814/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045802/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044953/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046149/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/?ref_=adv_li_tt

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407929/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046031/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045470/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045361/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045810/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5124074/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/?ref_=adv_li_tt
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046308/?ref_=adv_li_tt

Fergenaprido · #14

Here's my ballot ~~for now~~, fully ranked. ~~We'll see how much else I see before the deadline.~~ Ballot is now final. The 3 films I saw this month all made the cut, so the three dropoffs are just HMs/backups if something gets DQ'd.

1. Le salaire de la peur [The Wages of Fear]
2. Duck Amuck
3. Stalag 17
4. Tōkyō monogatari [Tokyo Story]
5. The Naked Spur
6. From Here to Eternity
7. The Hitch-Hiker
8. The Yellow Balloon
9. The Big Heat
10. Pickup on South Street
11. The Tell-Tale Heart
12. Zipping Along
13. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
14. Peter Pan
15. Tit-Coq
16. I Confess
17. Jigokumon [Gate of Hell]
18. Calamity Jane
19. Shane
20. Roman Holiday

21. A Unicorn in the Garden
22. Ti-Jean s'en va-t-aux chantiers [Ti-Jean Goes Lumbering]
23. I vitelloni

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zzzorf · #15

1. Roman Holiday
2. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
3. Niagara
4. Titanic
5. Stalag 17
6. Duck Amuck
7. Peter Pan
8. Pickup on South Street
9. Bully for Bugs
10. The Bigamist
11. The Wages of Fear
12. The Big Heat
13. Four Sided Triangle
14. The Living Desert
15. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
16. From Here to Eternity
17. The War of the Worlds
18. Shane
19. The Tell-Tale Heart
20. Angel Face

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Dolwphin · #16

1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
2. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
4. The Earrings of Madame de… (Ophüls)
5. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Tati)
6. The End (Maclaine)
7. A Geisha (Mizoguchi)
8. Duck Amuck (Jones)
9. Summer With Monika (Bergman)
10. Little Fugitive (Ashley/Engel/Orkin)

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046487/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045728/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045814/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045708/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046004/

Leopardi · #17

1. Le salaire de la peur [The Wages of Fear]
2. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot [Mr. Hulot's Holiday]
3. Stalag 17
4. Roman Holiday
5. Madame de... [The Earrings of Madame De...]
6. Lili
7. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
8. Shane
9. Tôkyô monogatari [Tokyo Story]
10. The War of the Worlds
11. The Hitch-Hiker
12. The Actress
13. The Naked Spur
14. Sommaren med Monika [Summers with Monica]
15. Anatahan [The Saga of Anatahan]
16. The Maze
17. Little Fugitive
18. Jeopardy
19. Duck Amuck
20. Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! [Welcome Mr. Marshall!]

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timshelboy · #18

PARIS MODEL engaging B movie about dress that changes hands a la TALES OF MANHATTAN

TAKE ME TOWN a lovely bit of early Sirk Americana

WOMAN THEY ALMOST LYNCHED enjoyable ladywestern predating JOHNNY GUITAR

LE RIDEAU CRAMOISI a haunting short

Caracortada · #19

Sommaren med Monika
Pane, amore e fantasia
From Here to Eternity
The Wild One
Le boulanger de Valorgue
Roman Holiday
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Thérèse Raquin
Kiss Me Kate
Stalag 17
Miss Sadie Thompson
The Big Heat
The Band Wagon
Julius Caesar
I Confess
Tôkyô monogatari
Pickup on South Street
Mogambo
Peter Pan
How to Marry a Millionaire

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ororama · #20

1. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
3. The Heart of The Matter (George More O'Ferrall)
4. A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. M. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
6. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
7. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
8. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
9. From Here To Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
10. Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
11. The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino)
12. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
13. Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
14. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
15. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
16. Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
17. The Captain's Paradise (Anthony Kimmins)
18. Gun Fury (Raoul Walsh)
19. Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! (Luis García Berlanga)
20. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

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Minkin · #21

01. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
02. Invaders from Mars
03. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
04. I vitelloni
05. The Actress
06. The Living Desert
07. Calamity Jane
08. Glen or Glenda
09. The Wages of Fear
10. Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
11. Ugetsu
12. The Magnetic Monster
13. Kiss Me Kate
14. Stalag 17
15. Prowlers of the Everglades
16. The Man Between
17. The Long Long Trailer
18. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T
19. War of the Worlds
20. Peter Pan

The Fightin' 53rd

Lonewolf2003 · #22

1. Le salaire de la peur [The Wages of Fear]: 10!
2. Tôkyô monogatari [Tokyo Story]: 8.8
3. Ugetsu monogatari [Ugetsu]: 8.8
4. Stalag 17: 8.5
5. Pickup on South Street: 8.5
6. I vitelloni: 8.2
7. Duck! Rabbit, Duck!: 8.2
8. The Big Heat: 8.2
9. All I Desire: 8.2
10. La signora senza camelie [The Lady Without Camelias]: 8.2
11. Sommaren med Monika [Summer with Monika]: 8.0
12. Anatahan: 8.0
13. L'amour d'une femme [The Love of a Woman]: 8.0
14. Duck Amuck: 8.0
15. The Hitch-Hiker: 8.0
16. Madame de... [The Earrings of Madame de...]: 7.8
17. Daybreak Express: 7.8
18. Les vacances de monsieur Hulot [Mr. Hulot's Holiday]: 7.8
19. Little Fugitive: 7.8
20. Jigokumon [Gate of Hell]: 7.8

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jeff_v · #23

1. Ugetsu monogatari
2. Le salaire de la peur / Wages of Fear
3. The Big Heat
4. The Band Wagon
5. The Naked Spur
6. El
7. Tokyo monogatari
8 Madame de...
9. Pickup on South Street
10. Duck Amuck
11. I vitelloni
12. The Blue Gardenia
13. Entotsu no mieru basho / Where Chimneys Are Seen
14. Gion bayashi / A Geisha
15. Nihon no higeki / A Japanese Tragedy
16. Julius Caesar
17. Sommaren med Monika / Summers with Monika
18. The Tell-Tale Heart
19. Little Fugitive
20. Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!

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DudeLanez · #24

01. Tôkyô monogatari (Ozu)
02. Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi)
03. Le salaire de la peur (Clouzot)
04. Magokoro (Kobayashi)
05. I Confess (Hitchcock)
06. Gycklarnas afton (Bergman)
07. The Big Heat (Lang)
08. Él (Buñuel)
09. Shane (Stevens)
10. All I Desire (Sirk)

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134805/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045897/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045848/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045555/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045361/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046303/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045492/

zomgmouse · #25

(4.5/5)
1. The Wages of Fear
2. Marty
3. From Here to Eternity
(4/5)
4. The Hitch-Hiker
5. I Confess
6. Pickup on South Street
7. Ugetsu
8. M. Hulot's Holiday
9. The Earrings of Madame De...
10. Roman Holiday
11. Sawdust and Tinsel
12. Where the Chimneys Are Seen
13. An Inlet of Muddy Water
14. Tokyo Story
15. I Vitelloni

HONS
(3.5/5) Gate of Hell, Shane, Crime Wave, The Lady Without Camellias, The Naked Spur, The Street of Hope, Anatahan, Welcome Mr. Marshall, The Band Wagon, Angel Face, The Tell-Tale Heart

IMDb links:

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Gordon_Gekko · #26

1. The Big Heat
2. Le Salaire de la Peur
3. Tôkyô monogatari
4. La Signora senza camelie
5. Ugetsu monogatari
6. Niagara
7. Stalag 17
8. The Naked Spur
9. Él
10. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (guilty pleausure I

)
11. Madame de...
12. I vitelloni
13. Knights of the Round Table (guilty pleausure II

)
14. Pickup on South Street
15. Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
16. The Hitch-Hiker
17. Sommaren med Monika
18. Roman Holiday
19. Jigokumon
20. From Here to Eternity

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insomnius · #27

Unranked.

99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
Aida (Clemente Fracassi)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
Crime Wave (André De Toth)
Daybreak Express (D.A. Pennebaker)
Det stora äventyret / The Great Adventure (Arne Sucksdorff)
Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger)
Form Phases II (Robert Breer)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
I, the Jury (Harry Essex)
I dimma dold / Hidden in the Fog (Lars-Eric Kjellgren)
La nave delle donne maledette / The Ship of Condemned Women (Raffaello Matarazzo)
La signora senza camelie / The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
Sea Devils (Raoul Walsh)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
The Redhead from Wyoming (Lee Sholem)
Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné)
Wicked Woman (Russell Rouse)

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blocho · #28

1. Stalag 17
2. Shane
3. The Wages of Fear
4. The Big Heat
5. 99 River Street
6. Summer with Monika
7. I Vitelloni
8. The Sun Shines Bright
9. From Here to Eternity
10. The Long Memory
11. The Blue Gardenia
12. Crime Wave
13. The Hitch-Hiker
14. Angel Face
15. House of Wax
16. The Naked Spur
17. Niagara
18. The War of the Worlds

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The Worst: Escape from Fort Bravo, Invaders from Mars, Tokyo Story

AB537 · #29

Interesting year. For me, only one or two great films but a bunch of pretty good ones, including lesser works of great directors like Reed, Fellini and Wilder, and some quality noirs. Also a relatively rare year in which the Academy probably did a decent job, especially if noirs/westerns/non-English content are filtered out.

1. Le salaire de la peur - The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
2. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot - Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
3. Niagara (Henry Hathaway)
4. Sommaren med Monika - Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
6. Bienvenido Mister Marshall (Luis Garcia Berlanga)
7. Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
8. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
9. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
10. The Man Between (Carol Reed)
11. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
12. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
13. Tôkyô monogatari - Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
14. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
15. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
16. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann)
17. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
18. Jigokumon - Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
19. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
20. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)

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MoTH · #30

Ranked list:

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu)
2. Older Brother, Younger Sister (Mikio Naruse)
3. Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka)
5. An Inlet of Muddy Water (Tadashi Imai)
6. Epitome (Kaneto Shindô)
7. A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)
8. Él (Luis Buñuel)
9. The Ship of Condemned Women (Raffaello Matarazzo)
10. Wild Geese (Shirô Toyoda)
11. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
12. The End (Christopher Maclaine)
13. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
14. Pickup on South Street (Sam Fuller)
15. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
16. The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
17. Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho)
18. Hiroshima (Hideo Sekigawa)
19. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
20. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones)

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prodigalgodson · #31

1. Anatahan (Sternbeg)
2. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
3. Madame de... (Ophuls)
4. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
5. Wild Geese (Toyoda)
6. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
7. El (Buñuel)
8. Eldora (Markopolous)
9. The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino)
10. Angel Face (Preminger)
11. I Vitelloni (Fellini)
12. Thunder Bay (Mann)
13. Roman Holiday (Cukor)
14. Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman)
15. Eaux d'artifice (Anger)
16. Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection (Brakhage)
17. The Man Between (Reed)
18. The Naked Spur (Mann)
19. Statues Also Die (Resnais/Marker)
20. The Bigamist (Lupino)

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1SO · #32

1. Pickup on South Street
2. Peter Pan
3. The Big Heat
4. Stalag 17
5. Shane
6. The Wages of Fear
7. Escape from Fort Bravo
8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
9. Dangerous Crossing
10. Calamity Jane
11. All I Desire
12. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
13. From Here to Eternity
14. I Love Melvin
15. A Lion is in the Streets
16. The Man from the Alamo
17. Tumbleweed
18. Man on a Tightrope
19. I Vitelloni
20. Vice Squad

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Mifune · #33

1. Pickup on South Street
2. Stalag 17
3. Ugetsu
4. The Wages of Fear
5. Tokyo Story
6. The Big Heat
7. Niagara
8. The Earrings of Madame de…
9. The Naked Spur
10. The Cruel Sea
11. The Blue Gardenia
12. Crime Wave

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1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/
2. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/
3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/
4. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/
5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/
6. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045555/
7. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046126/
8. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022/
9. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044953/
10. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045659/
11. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045564/
12. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046878/

3eyes · #34

1953
ranked
*First seen in theater

1. *Ugetsu
2. From here to eternity
3. *Stalag 17
4. *The great adventure
5. *The captain’s paradise

6. The little kidnappers
7. *Gilbert and Sullivan
8. Julius Caesar
9. *Gate of hell
10. Pickup on South Street

11. *Roman holiday
12. Little fugitive
13. *Genevieve
14. *The moon is blue
15. The 5000 fingers of Dr T

16.*The living desert
17. Beat the devil
18.The return of Don Camillo
19l Ben and me

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hurluberlu · #35

1. Le salaire de la peur ( Henri-Georges Clouzot )
2. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot ( Jacques Tati )
3. The Robe ( Henry Koster )
4. Ugetsu monogatari ( Kenji Mizoguchi )
5. The Big Heat ( Fritz Lang )
6. Gycklarnas afton ( Ingmar Bergman )
7. Madame de... ( Max Ophuls )
8. The Naked Spur ( Anthony Mann )
9. Julius Caesar ( Joseph L. Mankiewicz )
10. I Confess ( Alfred Hitchcock )
11. Sommaren med Monika ( Ingmar Bergman )
12. Tokyo monogatari ( Yasujiro Ozu )
13. Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg ( Sergei Yutkevich )
14. Stalag 17 ( Billy Wilder )
15. Le retour de Don Camillo ( Julien Duvivier )
16. Mogambo ( John Ford )
17. Peter Pan ( Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske )
18. The Band Wagon ( Vincente Minnelli )
19. House of Wax ( André De Toth )
20. The Titfield Thunderbolt ( Charles Crichton )

links

Rufus-T · #36

1. Tokyo Story
2. Shane
3. Lili
4. From Here to Eternity
5. The Wages of Fear
6. Ugetsu
7. Stalag 17
8. Roman Holiday
9. Kiss Me Kate
10. The Band Wagon
11. The Robe
12. The Naked Spur
13. Summer with Monika
14. Gate of Hell
15. Julius Caesar
17. Peter Pan
16. Calamity Jane
18. It Came from Outer Space
19. Pickup on South Street
20. The War of the Worlds

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Angel Glez · #37

Unranked ballot:
Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! (Welcome Mr. Marshall!)
Det stora äventyret (The Great Adventure)
Do Bigha Zamin (Two Acres of Land)
El bruto (The Brute)
Entotsu no mieru basho (Where Chimneys Are Seen)
Farlig ungdom (Dangerous Youth)
Gan (Wild Geese)
Himeyuri no Tô (Tower of Lilies)
Il sole negli occhi (Empty Eyes)
Koibumi (Love Letter)
La nave delle donne maledette (The Ship of Condemned Wome)
L'amour d'une femme (The Love of a Woman)
Les orgueilleux (The Proud and the Beautiful)
O Cangaceiro (The Bandit)
O Canto do Mar (Song of the Sea)
Rue de l'Estrapade
Traviata '53
Un acte d'amour (Act of Love)
Un marito per Anna Zaccheo (A Husband for Anna)
Vesna

URLs

HMs (no English subs available afaik):
Carne de horca (Condemned to Hang)
Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero (Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair)
La cieca di Sorrento (The Blind Woman of Sorrento)
La red (The Net)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
El
I vitelloni
Le salaire de la peur
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Madame de...
Roman Holiday
Stalag 17
The Band Wagon
The Big Heat
Tôkyô monogatari
Ugetsu monogatari

To watch before the deadline:
La cobarde
Laughing Anne
The Redhead from Wyoming / I dimma dold (both taken from insomnius' ballot)

Wanted:
Jirochô sangokushi: Jirochô hatsutabi
Kanikôsen
Kärlekens bröd
Le chevalier de la nuit
Pu-san
Raya wa Sekina
Vozvrashchenie Vasiliya Bortnikova
Wei lou chun xiao
Zhong qiu yue

Good_Will_Harding · #38

Dropping the list now and will add links before deadline, after I catch up with a few more blind spots.

1. Tôkyô monogatari / Tokyo Story
2. The Big Heat
3. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.
4. Le salaire de la peur / The Wages of Fear
5. Anatahan
6. I Confess
7. All I Desire
8. The War of the Worlds
9. Ugetsu monogatari
10. Shane

11. La signora senza camelie
12. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
13. The Naked Spur
14. Stalag 17
15. Sommaren med Monika / Summer With Monika
16. Jigokumon / Gate of Hell
17. It Came From Outer Space
18. Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot / Mr. Hulot Holiday
19. Stazione Termini
20. I vitelloni

links

gromit82 · #39

I've extended the deadline to Friday, May 27. This is due in part to the fact that I had previously set the deadline for "Monday, May 22," which is not an actual day this year.

Thanks to everyone who has voted so far.

peeptoad · #40

Thanks for extending. That gives me time to watch the last 2 I had intended on seeing before I vote...